Saturday, January 24, 2009

My skirt is finished. I cut it out and then serged the raw edges yesterday. I also marked and made the four pleats yesterday. Today I made the casing, adjusted the length, added the lining and put it all together and hemmed it. It is a fairly heavy weight denim that should keep me nice and warm.

I have been doing all manner of other things the past several days. Shopping, taking children to music lessons and 4H, getting the oil changed in the car, shopping, shipping packages, shopping, paying bills, lessons, shopping, cooking. For some one who hates to leave home I sure do spend a lot of time away from home. I have a little plaque in front of me that reads "For Everything There Is A Season." I have to keep reminding myself that this too shall pass. Life will settle down into a routine someday soon and the running will slow down.

Yesterday afternoon our little bee keeper came running in the house all excited. He and a friend had found the skull of a small animal in the woods across from our home. It is now proudly displayed in a glass box his sister gave him, right up on his dresser with his models. Today he came home with some more of the bones to the animal.
This is what is laying on my kitchen counter right now. Boys, you gotta love them.
Sew Long for Now!




1 comment:

Leah said...

The bones make me chuckle. My mom found this animal skull in our garden once, it was about the size of a swine skull. It is quite a mystery how it got to be in our garden in town. :) And the thought of how big the animal had to be in order to get it TO our garden...that's another scary thing all by it self!!